Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Ghirlandajo

The following discussion is an archived debate of the case of suspected sockpuppetry. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this page. All edits should go to the talk page of this case. If you are seeing this page as a result of an attempt to open a new case of sockpuppetry of the same user, read this for detailed instructions.

User:Ghirlandajo

Suspected sockpuppeteer: Ghirlandajo (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)

Suspected sockpuppets: Hare krine (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log); Yjiadasa-mahala-wishna (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)

Report submission by

Blueboy 96 00:09, 15 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Evidence

On several occasions, Ghirlandajo has removed references to Joseph Stalin being Russian:

Only three minutes after being created, Hare krine goes to the Stalin article and takes the Russian ref out again. Suspect this is an attempt by Ghirlandajo to avoid 3RR.

It's also likely that Hare krine is related to Yjiadasa-mahala-wishna, as Hare krine's only edit: here blows away a bunch of new content and reverts way back to one of Yjiadasa-mahala-wishna's edits. C ^thirty-three 00:53, 15 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comments: Has WP:AGF been thrown out the window? Blueboy's cranky claims that Dzhugashvili had a single drop of Russian blood [4] and that there are references to confirm the fact (above) are patently false and belong to WP:FTN. If he fails to prove my misdemeanor, I urge him to apologize for frivolous accusations of sockpuppeteering and vandalism which he aggressively pasted on my talk page.[5]

Conclusions

I find that this is woefully insufficient evidence of sockpuppetry to warrant this accusation against an extremely well-established contributor. I would support closing this report as unfounded. Leaving open temporarily for other admins to comment. Newyorkbrad 01:25, 15 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I concur with Newyorkbrad, and I'm closing this case for lack of meaningful evidence. Under the worst of circumstances, it's hard to prove sockpuppetry when the suspected sock has only one to three edits, and the suspected sockpuppeteer has several thousand edits. Furthermore, I checked the contribution log of Ghirlandjoe - he was working on a completely unrelated article, over the course of several edits, around the moment that Hare krine made his lone edit to the Stalin article. To suggest that Ghirla would have interrupted his work on the other article to log out, disrupt the Stalin article, then log back in to his main account and resume business as usual, is beyond ridiculous. Shalom ^Hello 03:57, 15 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]